Tag: ESRI
ArcGIS Now on Android
Esri has announced the availability of ArcGIS on the Android platform: Google Android users can now access data and mapping capabilities on their smartphones with the ArcGIS for Android application. ArcGIS for Android lets users find and share maps as well as deploy GIS data and functionality on Android devices. The free app is now available and [...]
GIS Student Developer Contest
Claremont Graduate University’s School of Information Systems and Technology has partnered with Esri to sponsor a GIS student developer contest. The contest offers for than $70,000 in scholarships and cash prizes to entrants who can demonstrate the best uses of GIS technology in two focus areas: public health and humanitarian issues or transportation safety. From the press [...]
San Diego Power Outage Twitter Map
Tweets relating to the current San Diego power outage are mapped below. Any tweets related hashtags and keywords (#blackout, #outage, sdpoweroutage, power, electric) have been geolocated and mapped out onto a map of the Southern California area. Also mapped are any social media content from YouTube and Flickr flagged with the keyword “blackout”. Click on the [...]
U.S. Wildfire Map
An interactive map published by Esri shows the wildfire locations across the United States which covers the current wildfires raging in central Texas region and in California (click on the fire icon for each location for a popup with the fire name and current amount of acreage burned). The wildfire data is from USGS NHSS as [...]
Weather and GIS
Find weather related geographic data and GIS tools. Google Maps Weather Google Maps has added a weather layer. The layer shows current weather conditions and short term weather predictions. To turn the weather layer on, hover over the overview map in the upper righthand corner and select it from the menu that appears. Icons show [...]